Plants people actually want to grow.
A working plant nursery in a rural county that didn't have one. Allegedly organic. Definitely sturdy.
4
Greenhouses
125+
Varieties
5,000
Sq ft under glass
0
Two-hour drives
The reason it exists
The receiving greenhouse — frame up, ready for plastic.
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The reason it exists
We built it because the nearest one was an hour away.
Most of our neighbors had to drive 60 miles for a tomato start that wasn't half-dead. Apparently that's the rural tax nobody put on the books. So we built greenhouses, filled them with plants people actually want to grow, and stopped making it everyone else's problem.
Plan a visit →From dirt to airflow
How we built four functional greenhouses.
01 — Foundation
Concrete, posts, level ground.
Started with leveled ground and concrete footings. Posts matter more than people think — get them wrong and the whole frame fights you for fifteen years.
02 — Hoops
Bending metal in a parking lot.
Cut, bent, anchored, screwed. Heavy work. The kind where you understand why there are rules about square footage and why the building inspector smiles a little.
03 — Plastic
Three layers, pulled tight.
Triple-layer plastic covering. Getting it tight and keeping it tight is its own skill — a sport, basically. The day it goes on right is the day the greenhouse stops being a project.
04 — Spring wire
The thing that holds it all on.
Spring wire down the channels locks the plastic in place. Looks fiddly. Is fiddly. Worth it the first windstorm you watch from inside.
05 — Ready
Now we fill it with things that grow.
Benches. Irrigation. Climate control. Plants. Then customers. Then suspicion. Then a small line of people asking when the tomato starts come in.
Chapter 1 / 5
01 — Foundation
Inside the glass
What's growing right now.
Inventory rotates with the season. The categories are steady. The exact varieties update as they come in. Allegedly that's how plants work.
Vegetable starts
60+
Tomatoes, peppers, squash. Hardened off properly.
“Real plants. Real people behind them. No two-hour round trip required.
— Why we built it
Green Globe artichoke, just hardened off.
Herb varieties
46
Rosemary, mint, basil, oregano, and the rest of the pantry.
Fruit varieties
15+
Raspberries, stone fruit, the occasional unreasonable melon.
Italian basil, ready to go home.
Honeydew on the vine.
Catalog
Browse 125 varieties
Searchable by category. Photos for every plant. Linked guides for the tricky ones.
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What's coming in
Clips from the nursery, this season.
Truckloads, walkthroughs, the occasional pest, and a man allegedly growing salad.
Three raspberry varieties, side by side
They taste different. We promise.
Aphids. On a tree. (We handle it.)
Nursery problem-solving, narrated.
A truckload of plants arrives
Spring stocking. Weeks of unloading.
Nursery update — what just came in
A walk-through of this week’s arrivals.
Michael in the greenhouse. Suspicious.
Allegedly growing food. Allegedly.
Drive-by purlin sighting. Suspicious.
A man, a truck, a structural beam.
Just a guy growing a lot of salad
No defense, only lettuce.
P.S.
Allegedly organic. Actually here.
You can buy our plants the only way that makes sense: by walking in and looking at them. Drive over. Pet a dog. Leave with dirt on your shoes.
Keep in touch
Plant updates, weather rants, and the occasional goat photo.
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